Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Do you have objects that haunt you? Things an ex bought you, or stuff you hold onto that brings back painful or complicated memories? What are they? Why? I’m writing about this this week and could use your help 35950
Audrey Bell (watch my videos!) @audiebellpt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I had a blanket my highschool bc gave me and I loved it but when we broke up it was a big open wound in my bedroom so I gave it back to him when I returned his stuff. I did the same with a Zelda game that I bought and owned in my 20s, bc I played it on an ex’s switch, and so didn’t want it anymore. 000
Literally A Frog @literallyafrog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I still have a photocopy of a letter I wrote to an ex back when I thought she might be having my kid. Someone told me I was gonna want to have proof that I did everything I could to be in his life. Wasn't mine. Now it just sits in the back of an old folder collecting dust 010
Kharior @kharior.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My end of deployment gift. My rank machined with my name under it. We all got one. When I see it or touch it I think of the guy I spent 12-20 hour days with 7 days a week that took his own life years later. I can't get rid of it, but holy shit it sucks sometimes. 050
Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have voicemails from relatives that have passed, or I don’t speak with anymore. I can’t bring myself to delete them because forgetting what they sound like feels like a betrayal 020
normal aaron guy @aaronguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I got a box of my old medals, ranks, unit patches and honor guard horseshoe taps. makes me think of my service - especially the people I gave flags to 000
Miranada from Canada @mirandam12.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have something I made during an art therapy session from the week I spent in an in-patient behavioural health facility 10 years ago. It was one of the lowest points of my life, but it’s a reminder that I’m more than that moment. I think it helps me feel okay with having been admitted. 020
Wicked Witch(ney) 🏁🔮🖤 @f1whitney.coys.social · 30/06/2025Homemade body butter by someone that ghosted me when I thought we’d be friends forever. If I get rid of it, it’s like getting rid of ever knowing them. It’s all that’s left. Plus, it smells good. There’s that. 140
Alfy Collins @alfuzy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My phone haunts me but thats purely due to it being a portal to hell of my own doing 000
lampfishlish @lampfishie.bsky.social · 30/06/2025i have a whippit cartridge from 2018 before i realized a best friend was struggling w addiction. i tried some with them once on vacation - was a happy & carefree memory during a trying period in my life. didnt realize how deep they were in it until later. i've lots of guilt abt keeping the cartridge 000
Road @thatroadguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My abusive father's ring. It was the one he liked to turn in his palm and slap me with. I don't remember when he gave it to me 20 years ago, but it was his wedding ring from his marriage to my mom. It was thick, gold, and had a large red stone. I pawned it for $45 10 years ago to never see it again 000
SpicyOne @philosophicalrazor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025It’s not an object, but the song Claire de Lune makes me feel melancholy because the teacher played it everyday during art class when I moved to the US as a four-year-old. I felt lost, I couldn’t speak the language, everything was different and I realized that my old life was gone for good. 010
cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 02/07/2025one time i took a big ole doodie that looked remarkably like gary busey and while the object is gone it does still haunt me 000
Pander Underwear 🇵🇸 @pandershirts.com · 30/06/2025Birthday cards from family members that have passed 000
Linda Kent @lindakentny.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Photo of a friend I fell out of contact with. Ditto a letter from another friend. I always think today, I'll write, today I'll call, and then decades go by. I'm filled with remorse that I'm such a bad friend to such good people. I have friends I stayed in touch with, but old friends, not later ones 000
one big pancake @onebigpancake.bsky.social · 01/07/2025i have a collection 12+ years worth of my older brothers exes love notes that they left behind at my parents house and my birthday cards that they signed with cute notes about how they love me and my brother and i read through it all one bad night a year 100
Lady Voldemort @ladyvoldemort09.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I had a nice laptop my ex gave me when my original MacBook died. He was very controlling and didn’t want me to have a new Mac because he was a PC guy, so he gave me a PC for Valentine’s to be manipulative, because who would complain about being gifted a computer? And, I have my best friend’s ashes 100
Paradox @paradox815.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Code from jobs where I was laid off or let go. It’s still a very useful reference for building things at new jobs (or for fun), but every time I look at it I remember all the stress I went through to get something out the door or how miserable and mistreated I was. 000
Haribo's_Biggest_Hater @jkmcguee.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I wouldn't say they haunt me, but I will forever associate Ghirardelli and Lindt chocolates with an ex. He was a terrible person and abusive, but he did bring me candy. I basically just don't eat them anymore. It's like mentally I've decided they don't even taste good anymore 000
🍉 matty 🪲 @mullhund.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have a birthday card from my ex that I kept because the card itself was 1. Handmade (not by him) 2. Very Me. Inside the card are the last few nice things he said to me in the last years of our relationship, and they aren't even THAT nice. I keep it with some other keepsakes. 100
Gokupants @gokupants.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I keep one voice-mail from each close friend or family member that leaves one, just in case. I got a new phone the week that my grandmother passed, and it caused me to lose the one I had from her. I wasn't notified she had passed until the week after, so I had thought I had time to get a replacement 010
I’m not there I’m gone @imnotthereimgone.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have a old silver ID bracelet of my dads from when they were cool in the 70’s. I wore it for a while when our relationship was really strained, thinking it would bring us closer, and that entire time it just got worse. we’re completely estranged now, but I still have the bracelet. Why?! 000
Dr. Lab Waste @labwaste.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My mother set me a set of nesting oak side tables that my grandfather had made because she couldn't bear to have things from him around, and now they sit in my home and haunt me. He was an incredibly abusive man and eventually drove my grandmother to suicide. 000
dirty south clean girl @sarabursavich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have a framed invitation to the wedding of dear friends who are now divorced. the invite was handmade with letterpress prints from joseph campbell myths and botanical illustrations. it is still special but def haunted 020
royvlution.bsky.social @royvlution.bsky.social · 30/06/2025For years I kept a pocket knife my abusive uncle gave me. I kept it because I had hope he would change for the better, but the opposite happened. I got rid of it when my friend gave me a new pocket knife for Christmas a few years back, because I decided I didn’t need reminders of him anymore. 100
Cecil @cecilwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025As a kid, someone who had a crush on me painted this for me before I broke their heart. I've kept it for like 17 years and four moves for reasons unclear. It is a beautiful reminder I'm kind of a bad person. 000
Harrison Bateman @batemanharrison.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have a tattoo that I got for my siblings. Going no contact with my dad over his bigotry & hatred hasn’t made me the most popular. There are times I even envy my friends who are only children, they never notice when no birthday wishes come, or the empty space in family photos I used to fill. 000
Charlie @chumboy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Birthday cards from old friends who drifted away. I always remember their birthdays, and wonder if they still think about mine when it comes around. 000
mite's demise @cityghost.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My best friend killed himself and I held onto his work ID. It’s all I really have of his. Lots of memories, a few childhood photos, and this laminated plastic card. It’s in my nightstand and sometimes, looking for something else, I open the drawer forgetting I’ll see his face. 010
OffTopic @stitch-and-stream.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have my old engagement ring. It's basically worthless and my ex hid it in my things when I returned it. I don't know what to do with it tbh 000
cherry, maraschino cherry ♦️ @cinnamonlungs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025this might be too dark ? but i have this little frog wind chime i was gifted when we helped someone move when i was a kid bc i loved it so much. that person did Criminal Things to me before, that i blocked out, and it's very conflicting with a sentimental-to-objects adult brain, to add that up. 000
Marie Alter fanclub @venividiviche.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I'm unsure if this counts, but I've got a crafting corner full of failed/abandoned art pieces+materials from my last Creative Spree. I could get rid of it, but I'm equal parts "this is all trash" and "I could totally fix this" and have been for a couple years now 😔 010
MattyBeRad @mattyberad.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My grandfather was an aspiring photographer who bought expensive cameras and had his work professionally framed in hopes of selling it. It never took off. After he passed, I was left his work, most of which is landscapes, or flowers, or an empty train track, with his signature on the bottomr right. 090
